Well, you'll realise then that seeing through the self-view doesn't necessarily improve your memory or make you more 'mindful'! :)

Ha ha! You're doing so many of these threads that it must almost impossible to keep track. A friend has been telling me to get out of your way because there is a ...

Good morning. Just wanted to add something more. Every day that passes it comes clearer that this actually makes a huge difference. Such a tiny thing, so much difference. Today i have woken up to astonishment at where this is taking me now.

I did reply to the questions before. Some of these answers will be more or less the same as last week. Plus a few extra clarifications...

Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever?

No. Nobody anywhere at any time could have an ...

Ok the next time any doubt arises i will do that.

With my friend this morning we sat together again and i got her to question 'who' is aware of experience. Talking together before i left, rather than doubt there was certainity. It was easy to address her doubts.

By referring back to her ...

Spending the night with a friend who's husband suddenly left her for a younger woman. As she has experience of buddhism have been taking her towards the idea of discovering that there is no self that is suffering, hating etc. We meditated together - i wanted her to investigate direct experience very ...

Hi again. i'm going to be busy this weekend organising a couple of events & might not get back again until Monday, so I'll write something now although it's got late.
I like the analogy and agree there’s a mistaken perception involved, but how is it mistaken? When a pure sensation / perception ...

Sorry it has taken some time to answer the questions. Partly I wanted to review some more before answering the questions and partly my sleep patterns have gone weird & that has interfered.

1) Is there a separate entity 'self', 'me' 'I', at all, anywhere, in any way, shape or form? Was there ever ...

... anything ... ? :)
T.

Hi yes I wrote it last night, but it got very late & i'll post it later today when i've had time to reread & make sure it is coherent!

Love
V

p.s. liked the post and the pictures! :)

Just google searched for Fallas images & those seemed to illustrate what they are. The one that appeared in my mind was a strange contorted thing... the one I saw burnt this year.

Will let the decision to answer the questions arise in it's own time!

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Woke up (apparently in the middle of the night)
As conscious arose, the sense of "i" returning also arose but this time it was immediately followed by the awareness that there is no "i" to be found & that this is only a feeling. Similar to the gym experience you called "unbinding".

Scanned ...

So, look at what precedes a decision – can be something small or big. E.g. thoughts occur, emotional senses / preferences, impasse, more thinking, … so is ‘I’ doing it all, or is it doing itself, arising dependent on conditions?
A small but potentially telling exercise, just ‘decide’ you’re going ...

Some confusion & contradictory beliefs...

Trying to look at "unawareness"... when awareness "comes back" then (although I said the opposite before) sometimes there is a feeling of "i" returning.
Is it only possible to look at the less (narrow) aware processes after the event? when broad awareness ...

Could you explore the possibility that ‘you’ have seen through the self-view, that certain conceptions (doubts, beliefs) are holding back full acceptance of this but that nevertheless certain ‘fruits’ of this mitigated seeing-through are already manifesting?
Something like that would make sense ...

Ok. I'm working with this one still...

Is there ever any control over whether
awareness is ‘broad’ or ‘limited’ (to go on
using that kind of terminology)?
Choice. Supposedly the 'i' has a 'choice'... to behave well or badly, to be aware or unaware, to be a good buddhist o not. That is an ...

Thanks for that. It feels significant. Will get back when some kind of clear response emerges. This seems to challenge something directly.